have started reading your book, passed to me by a friend and find it brilliant. i am english and female but live in France (can't be perfect) and do a similar job as yours. over here we're called 'pompier' and we do ambulance and fire so the job is excellent to say the least. i want to pass your book onto some colleages in the trade and would like to know if you have had the book translated into french. it would go down well. or to put it another way you could make some dosh! anyway i shall keep in touch and keep reading your blog whenever i am at a mates house because my computer is broken at the moment. just want add thanks for your humour and making me laugh. (french haven't the same sense of humour and i often find that my jokes go down like lead balloons) - i haven't the same experience as you yet but victims are the same the world over.